Description of Tool or App

Popplet is a web 2.0 tool that is accessible from an iOS device, and web browser, that allows for users to create graphic organizers and timelines, as well as being used as a presentation device.


Benefits of Tool or App

  • Sharing and collaboration in real time

  • Effective Presentation Tool

  • Videos and Images can be imported from any saved file on your computer or imported from Facebook, Flickr, and YouTube

  • Comment feature for feedback

  • Embedding of Google Maps, and Amazon

  • Popplets can be exported as a PDF or JPG

  • Popplets can be saved and printed

  • Popplet Presenter : a desktop application to allow for offline presentations

  • Sharing feature for Facebook and Twitter



Constraints of Tool or App

  • Lack of Privacy: All graphic organizers are public

  • Embedding Issue: the images may be rearranged due to formatting


How To Use Tool or App




Original Artifact of Tool or App (created by someone in your house)



Spanish Speaking Nations Popplet




IDEAS for Tool or App

Student |

  • Timeline of events in a unit of study (e.g. spread of a language, or ethnic system, rise and fall of empires, etc.)

  • Graphic Organizers (e.g. geography/landscape of a region of study, comparison of nations who speak the same language, language tree, etc.)

  • Image comparison

  • Plot line of a short story or novel

Teacher |

  • Presentations in class

  • Homework assignments with the integration of collaborative work

  • Developing a representation of your course's scope and sequence

  • Seating Charts (with pictures)